Methods and systems for interference mitigation in a dual-polarized communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10425256-B2
Application number	US-201815889919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 6, 2018
Priority date	Feb 6, 2018
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

An interference mitigation apparatus, comprising: an adaptive feedforward filtering stage and an adaptive feedback filtering stage configured to produce a plurality of output signals from a plurality of frequency downconverted signals, the output signals for being provided to a data decoding stage; a plurality of phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation to the frequency downconverted signals prior to processing by the adaptive feedforward filtering stage and the adaptive feedback filtering stage; and an adaptive controller configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators to the frequency downconverted signals based at least in part on symbol decisions made on the output signals. There may be second phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation after the adaptive feedforward filtering stage so as to produce the output signals for forwarding to the data decoding stage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An interference mitigation apparatus, comprising:
an adaptive feedforward filtering stage and an adaptive feedback filtering stage configured to produce a plurality of output signals from a plurality of frequency downconverted signals, the output signals for being provided to a data decoding stage, wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is in series after the adaptive feedforward filtering stage and wherein the adaptive feedforward filtering stage is configured for producing a corresponding plurality of intermediate signals and wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is configured for processing each of the intermediate signals to produce a corresponding one of a plurality of the output signals;
a plurality of phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation to the frequency downconverted signals prior to processing by the adaptive feedforward filtering stage and the adaptive feedback filtering stage; and
an adaptive controller configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators to the frequency downconverted signals based at least in part on symbol decisions made on the output signals.

2. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage comprises a two-dimensional linear filter.

3. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage comprises a two-dimensional linear filter with a plurality of taps, and wherein the adaptive controller is further configured for varying the taps based at least in part on the symbol decisions made on the output signals.

4. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 3 , wherein the adaptive feedforward filtering stage comprises a two-dimensional linear filter with a plurality of second taps, and wherein the adaptive controller is further configured for varying the second taps based at least in part on the symbol decisions made on the output signals.

5. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 4 , the adaptive controller being further configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators based also at least in part on the frequency downconverted signals and at least one of (i) the taps and (ii) the second taps.

6. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is configured for subtracting from each of the intermediate signals a signal at a respective one of two outputs of a two-dimensional linear filter fed by previous symbol decisions made on the output signals, thereby to produce the output signals for forwarding to the data decoding stage.

7. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 6 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is further configured for providing a result of each subtracting to a respective symbol slicer for making the symbol decisions.

8. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is configured for subtracting from each of the intermediate signals a signal at a respective one of two outputs of a two-dimensional linear filter fed by previous symbol decisions made on the output signals, the apparatus further comprising a plurality of second phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation to the result of each subtracting, thereby to produce the output signals for forwarding to the data decoding stage.

9. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 8 , wherein the adaptive controller is further configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the second phase rotators based at least in part on the symbol decisions made on the output signals.

10. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the adaptive controller is further configured for varying the amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators to the frequency downconverted signals based on execution of a least-mean-squares gradient descent algorithm.

11. An interference mitigation apparatus, comprising:
an adaptive feedforward filtering stage and an adaptive feedback filtering stage configured to produce a plurality of output signals from a plurality of frequency downconverted signals, the output signals for being provided to a data decoding stage;
a plurality of phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation to the frequency downconverted signals prior to processing by the adaptive feedforward filtering stage and the adaptive feedback filtering stage; and
an adaptive controller configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators to the frequency downconverted signals based at least in part on symbol decisions made on the output signals;
a time invariant feed-forward filter applied to the frequency downconverted signals before processing by the phase rotators.

12. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 11 , the time invariant feed-forward filter being configured for mitigating inter-symbol interference in the frequency downconverted signals resulting from faster-than-Nyquist signaling at a transmitter of modulated wireless signals from which the frequency downconverted signals are derived.

13. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 12 , the plurality of frequency downconverted signals being frequency downconverted from the modulated wireless signals of respective polarizations.

14. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 13 , further comprising a front end for frequency downconverting the modulated wireless signals to obtain the frequency downconverted signals, the modulated signals being high-order modulation signals.

15. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 14 , wherein the high-order modulation signals are N-QAM signals where N is a power of two.

16. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 11 , wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is in series after the adaptive feedforward filtering stage.

17. The interference mitigation apparatus defined in claim 16 , wherein the adaptive feedforward filtering stage is configured for producing a corresponding plurality of intermediate signals and wherein the adaptive feedback filtering stage is configured for processing each of the intermediate signals to produce a corresponding one of a plurality of the output signals.

18. An interference mitigation method, comprising:
frequency downconverting a plurality of modulated signals of respective polarizations to produce a corresponding plurality of frequency downconverted signals;
processing the frequency downconverted signals with an adaptive feedforward filtering stage and an adaptive feedback filtering stage to produce a corresponding one of a plurality of output signals, the output signals for being provided to a data decoding stage;
applying phase rotation to the frequency downconverted signals prior to said processing, wherein an amount of the phase rotation applied to the frequency downconverted signals is adaptively controlled based at least in part on symbol decisions made on the output signals.

19. The method defined in claim 18 , the adaptive feedforward filtering producing a corresponding plurality of intermediate signals, the adaptive feedback filtering stage processing each of the intermediate signals to produce a corresponding one of a plurality of the output signals, the adaptive feedback filtering stage subtracting from each of the intermediate signals one of two signals output by a

Assignees

• Jana Mrinmoy
• Mitra Jeebak
• Lampe Lutz Hans Joachim
• Huawei Tech Canada Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jana Mrinmoy
• Mitra Jeebak
• Lampe Lutz Hans-Joachim

Classifications

• H04L2025/03573

  between recursive and non-recursive · CPC title

• H04L25/03343

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04L25/03038

  with a non-recursive structure (H04L25/03031 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L25/03057 Primary

  with a recursive structure (H04L25/03031 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B7/10 Primary

  Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity · CPC title